Social Democrats

One of the country's most famous athletes, discus thrower Virgilijus Alekna has said he had no plans to join the Social Democrats for the upcoming parliamentary elections, and may not take part in the elections at all.

While recent corruption scandals are damaging the ruling Social Demcrats’s opinion poll ratings, their coalition partners the Order and Justice party’s ratings seem unaffected by a raft of their own scandals.

The currently existing value-added tax (VAT) of 21 percent can stand to be reduced, believes Prime Minister Algirdas Butkevičius.

While Lithuanian political parties tend to base their political campaigns on short term populist objectives, they mostly come up short when delivering on those pledges, an analysis by political scientists has shown.

Lithuania’s Prime Minister Algirdas Butkevičius has claimed what he sees as the Lithuanian President’s negative attitude towards his government started when the Social Democrats refused to form a coalition government with Conservatives.

After a stream of allegations of misconduct and corruption against the Government, Lithuania’s Prime Minister Algirdas Butkevičius and the Social Democrats have changed their approach by starting to fight back against what they see as a sustained campaign by Lithuania‘s President, according to two p...

Lithuania’s major political parties will work out an agreement to present a unified front opposing the threat posed by the construction of a new Belarus nuclear plant and to send a clear message that electricity from the plant will face restrictions.

Lithuania is currently undergoing a “medium-sized” political crisis, according to Lithuanian political scientists and analysts, but one that should not threaten the current Government's and ruling coalition's composition.

The Social Democrats claimed on Friday that Lithuanian President Dalia Grybauskaitė has been subjecting Lithuania’s coalition to “obvious and continued pressure” which the party said may be aimed at making the current government resign.

Most observers reckon that, after the Seimas elections, the nucleus of the ruling coalition will be made up of Social Democrats and Liberals, with Ramūnas Karbauskas’s Peasant and Green party and other independent parties contributing to the coalition as well.

A new poll shows the Social Democrats holding their position as Lithuania‘s most popular party with 23% of public support as President‘s Dalia Grybauskaitė approval ratings continue to fall.

Corruption suspicions in several Lithuanian ministries have severely damaged the government's ratings, a new poll shows. Popularity of Prime Minister Algirdas Butkevičius and his party, the Social Democrats, has suffered as well.

On Wednesday, the Vilnius city council decided against considering a “pillow tax.” 16 voted for considering the change, 9 voted against it, and 16 abstained.

On Wednesday, the ruling parties in parliament voted down the opposition’s proposed agenda and blocked the possibility of an extraordinary parliamentary session to consider impeaching Labour Party MP Vytautas Gapšys as well as opening the floor to discussion of other recent scandals that have afflic...

Three candidates are in the running to replace former Healthcare Minister Rimantė Šalaševičiūtė who stepped down from her position three weeks ago.

The ruling Lithuanian Social Democratic Party continues to top popularity rankings, despite recent stories of suspected corruption among its ranks, shows a poll commissioned by DELFI.

A proper clean-up of the Social Demcratic party following a raft of recent scandals could cost the Social Democrats the upcoming parliamentary elections, according to Vincentas Vobolevičius, the head of politics at ISM University of Management and Economics.

Falling opinion poll ratings for Lithuania’s president and an upcoming election are likely be the reasons why President Dalia Grybauskaitė has become increasingly critical of the current government of Algirdas Butkevičius, according to a leading analyst.

President Dalia Grybauskaitė is to have a "serious conversation" with Prime Minister Algirdas Butkevičius about corruption suspicions that have plagued his cabinet over the last week. The meeting is scheduled for next week, after Butkevičius comes back from vacation.